a (mostly) jazz blog from dtla

this week in releases: kill it again just because?

Mostly Other People Do The Killing, Blue. Notwithstanding the tremendous talent required to pull off a near note-for-note copy of Kind of Blue, we don’t really need it. Anyway, Mostly Other People Do The Killing released Blue this week to a swell of criticism – so, at least people are talking. Marc Myers JazzWax review is here. I won’t be buying the thing, but if I had friends in town who were new to jazz, and this band was playing, seems like it would be a great introduction.

Of course, the real thing, which remains amazing despite being extremely popular, is right here: